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Congress weighs deep cuts to funding for federal open government data platforms
Several core pillars of federal open government initiatives brought online by the Obama administration may be shuttered by proposed Congressional budget cuts. Data.gov, IT.USASpending.gov, and other...
View ArticleWeek in Review: Top Gov 2.0 and Open Government Stories
Open government made an appearance in popular culture, albeit not in an admiring sense. At the start of the week, Jon Stewart and the Daily Show mocked the Obama administration and the president for a...
View ArticleSenator Carper fears e-gov budget cuts are “penny wise, pound foolish”
As Daniel Schuman wrote on the Sunlight Foundation’s blog today, Delaware Senator Tom Carper wrote yesterday to federal CIO Vivek Kundra about the effects of a 75% cut to e-government funding at the...
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